Tara La Rose
Biographic Data
| ID | 258798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tara La Rose |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tara |
| FAMILY NAME | La Rose |
| SIGNATURE | LA ROSE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6301-6726 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Social work
This Special Issue on Leadership in Social Work emerged from a shared realization that, despite the critical role of leadership as both a facilitator of effective professional practice and a demonstration of social work’s commitment to creating fairer and more equitable societies, there is limited evidence regarding its distinct characteristics and impacts. There is also little published to date on how leadership can be best nurtured and supporte…
Behind Closed Doors? Sousveillance, Social Media Advocacy, Mothering and Mandated CPS Visits
Behind closed doors
The Behind Closed Doors project is a qualitative research study considering sousveillance in mandated social welfare contexts. Sousveillance (the practice of recording people in authority without their consent) and sousveillance social media advocacy (posting sousveillance recordings publicly without consent) are significant phenomena effecting the delivery of contemporary mandated social services (e.g., child protective services; probation and p…
Graying arts access
As the normative world pushed for a return to ableist normative life in 2022, a year marked by "severe" rates of the highly infectious Omicron variant and the loss of effective public measures, such as community masking and widely available testing, participants described the need for continued access to creative and social participation via remote options that sidestepped socially exclusive and physically inaccessible spaces. Findings indicate a…
Leader, Lead Thyself
Contract grading provides graduate-level students with greater control and autonomy within the learning process. The contract grading approach requires students to take greater responsibility for achieving course learning outcomes as well as allowing learners to adjust the style and focus of assignments to meet their own unique needs and desires. Within this article, contract grading is applied to social work leadership education and explored as …
Direct[Message]
Direct[Message], a community-based research (CBR) project developing a digital platform supporting older adults engagement with the arts through digital technologies, faced the challenge of redesigning the research protocol after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020. The redesign, which brought challenges and opportunities, allowed the research team to embed the project with process goals considering older adults' experiences of socia…
Social Work Digital Storytelling Project
Purpose: The Social Work Digital Storytelling project was a research study undertaken to (1) enhance digital literacy of practitioners and students through digital storytelling training, (2) diversify engagement in a local public library technology hub (the “makerspace”), and (3) understand and enhance social work leadership knowledge among students and practitioners through the creation and sharing of leadership-focused digital stories. Method: …
Analyzing Digital Narratives as Global Social Work Texts
One Small Revolution
This article presents the finding from a community based research project reflecting workers' retrospective analysis of the enduring effects of a strike over issues of workload. The 273 bargaining unit members of CUPE Local 2190 took a stand against fundamental changes to their work processes resulting in standardization of practice and the introduction of neo-conservative/neo-liberal values to child welfare services in the province of Ontario, C…
One Small Revolution
This article presents the finding from a community based research project reflecting workers' retrospective analysis of the enduring effects of a strike over issues of workload. The 273 bargaining unit members of CUPE Local 2190 took a stand against fundamental changes to their work processes resulting in standardization of practice and the introduction of neo-conservative/neo-liberal values to child welfare services in the province of Ontario, C…
Direct[Message]
Direct[Message], a community-based research (CBR) project developing a digital platform supporting older adults engagement with the arts through digital technologies, faced the challenge of redesigning the research protocol after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020. The redesign, which brought challenges and opportunities, allowed the research team to embed the project with process goals considering older adults' experiences of socia…
Analyzing Digital Narratives as Global Social Work Texts
Social Work Digital Storytelling Project
Purpose: The Social Work Digital Storytelling project was a research study undertaken to (1) enhance digital literacy of practitioners and students through digital storytelling training, (2) diversify engagement in a local public library technology hub (the “makerspace”), and (3) understand and enhance social work leadership knowledge among students and practitioners through the creation and sharing of leadership-focused digital stories. Method: …
One Small Revolution
This article presents the finding from a community based research project reflecting workers' retrospective analysis of the enduring effects of a strike over issues of workload. The 273 bargaining unit members of CUPE Local 2190 took a stand against fundamental changes to their work processes resulting in standardization of practice and the introduction of neo-conservative/neo-liberal values to child welfare services in the province of Ontario, C…
Analyzing Digital Narratives as Global Social Work Texts
Social Work Digital Storytelling Project
Purpose: The Social Work Digital Storytelling project was a research study undertaken to (1) enhance digital literacy of practitioners and students through digital storytelling training, (2) diversify engagement in a local public library technology hub (the “makerspace”), and (3) understand and enhance social work leadership knowledge among students and practitioners through the creation and sharing of leadership-focused digital stories. Method: …
Direct[Message]
Direct[Message], a community-based research (CBR) project developing a digital platform supporting older adults engagement with the arts through digital technologies, faced the challenge of redesigning the research protocol after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020. The redesign, which brought challenges and opportunities, allowed the research team to embed the project with process goals considering older adults' experiences of socia…
Graying arts access
As the normative world pushed for a return to ableist normative life in 2022, a year marked by "severe" rates of the highly infectious Omicron variant and the loss of effective public measures, such as community masking and widely available testing, participants described the need for continued access to creative and social participation via remote options that sidestepped socially exclusive and physically inaccessible spaces. Findings indicate a…
Leader, Lead Thyself
Contract grading provides graduate-level students with greater control and autonomy within the learning process. The contract grading approach requires students to take greater responsibility for achieving course learning outcomes as well as allowing learners to adjust the style and focus of assignments to meet their own unique needs and desires. Within this article, contract grading is applied to social work leadership education and explored as …
Social work
This Special Issue on Leadership in Social Work emerged from a shared realization that, despite the critical role of leadership as both a facilitator of effective professional practice and a demonstration of social work’s commitment to creating fairer and more equitable societies, there is limited evidence regarding its distinct characteristics and impacts. There is also little published to date on how leadership can be best nurtured and supporte…
Behind Closed Doors? Sousveillance, Social Media Advocacy, Mothering and Mandated CPS Visits
Behind closed doors
The Behind Closed Doors project is a qualitative research study considering sousveillance in mandated social welfare contexts. Sousveillance (the practice of recording people in authority without their consent) and sousveillance social media advocacy (posting sousveillance recordings publicly without consent) are significant phenomena effecting the delivery of contemporary mandated social services (e.g., child protective services; probation and p…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social Work (4 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)